Alan McKinnon wrote:
On Friday 17 October 2008 23:27:44 RYAN vAN GINNEKEN wrote:
heehee have been wanting to get onboard with gentoo for a while now how
ironic that the wiki site i was so looking forward to using is down the
same day my gentoo box is up heehee.
Let's see, how shall I put this? Oh stuff it, might as well be honest.
gentoo-wiki.com is notorious for being up and down more often than you change
your underwear. It's also been compromised at least twice in the last 12
months. The home page was last updated so long ago I'm no longer sure if it
was still in this millennium.
As the fellow who maintains the Bind and Postfix w/PostfixAdmin how-tos
on the wiki I take a small amount of umbrage with the above statements.
:-) Also my Bind how-to was added to the front page after I updated it
in July.
I generally try to update the docs with recent packages every six
months or so though I am guilty of letting them sit a bit longer.
However Gentoo has no official Bind documentation. The official Gentoo
Virtual Mail how-to offers about half the functionality, explanation,
and troubleshooting info in my doc. Also the Gentoo virtual mail server
has remained essentially unchanged in the last six years whereas my doc
has continued to change and improve. And while we're being honest my
virtual server build kicks the crap out of the official one in just
about every way.
I won't say that all docs on gentoo-wiki are of this quality or better
than the Gentoo docs, but you will be missing out on some genuinely
useful information by dismissing the gentoo-wiki out of hand.
In regards to the soon to be asked "why not update the Gentoo docs if
you're so darn smart" question going through a number of heads. In real
life I manage just over 7000 servers as part of a larger group and am
directly responsible for a bit over 1500 of them. I can devote an hour
or two every couple of months to updating my home Gentoo box and fixing
my wiki entries or I can fight with Guide XML for three or four hours
and generally produce nothing useful.
kashani
http://gentoo-wiki.com/index.php?title=HOWTO_Setup_a_DNS_Server_with_BIND
http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Setup_a_Virtual_Postfix/Courier_Mail_System_with_PostfixAdmin
